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23 UYGURS KILLED BY PAKISTANI POLICE
Habibullah and Abdusettar from Ghulja and Nuriddin
from Shahyar region of Aksu, survivors of the bloody
repression on February 5, 1997 in Ghulja , had fled to
Almaty in Kazakhstan. After finding a resort in Almaty,
they married to resident Uygur women and were able to
get temporary residence permission. The decision of
the Kazakh government to extradite Hemit Mehmet, İlyas
Zordun and Kasım Mehpir, who had also been involved in
the bloody February 5 , 1997 Ghulja repression on
pressure from the Chinese government constituted a
serious threat to the security of these three men and
thus they decided to move with their families to
Pakistan in 1998. Between the years 1998-2005 they
lived as refugees in different parts of Pakistan.
Although starting in 1998 these three Uygur families
contacted the UN refugee office (UNHCR) and embassies
of Western countries in Pakistan with requests to be
accepted as political refugees several times, their
requests were refused over these seven years. Till
2004 they had to migrate to different cities of
Pakistan, where they lived as refugees, always
insecure of their future.
In 2004 the three young Uygur families found a resort
in the Miranshah region of the district of Vaziristan
in Pakistan. But this spring they had to move from
Miranshah as well, having once again lost the chance
of a secure life. In Mid July 2005, the three families
consisting of 23 people - including two 60 and more
than 70 years old women, 5 men, 5 women, 11 children
between the age of 6 months and –15 years started
their way with the hope to find safer place to live.
On their way out of Vaziristan-Miranshah in a Toyota
and Jeep cars, the 23 people faced a strict control at
a check point by Pakistani police guards. During the
checking process, two Pakistani soldiers beat the old
women with their arms. This action caused the young
Uygur men to intervene and the incident got out of
control and the armed Pakistani police circled the
group and opened fire on them killing all 23 people.
Finally, their cars were destroyed with a rocket
missile.
After the massacre, local people who came by and
witnessed the scenery of killed children and peoples
arms and legs scattered around became furious and
attacked the police with their arms. High-level
officials of the Pakistani military forces and of the
Pakistani police who were informed about the horrible
event, made an apology to the people and covered this
issue on the spot. They took away the dead bodies and
the remains of the burned out cars.
Since many years, Pakistan is supporting its communist,
fascist friend China assisting it in or participating
itself in the mass killing of people in East Turkistan
without any responsibility, or delivering Uygurs by
force over to Chinese execution.
The police circles of Pakistan are continuing to
commit with crimes such as supporting the Chinese
aggressor in the arrest of the East Turkistan people,
thus the Uygur Muslims, their brothers in religion–,
accepting rewards from China for their actions in
damaging or killing Uygurs as well as assisting in
other racial killing and acts of state terror by
China.
We call the world community and the people of East
Turkistan to show their resolute response to these
bloody killings.
East Turkistan Information Centre
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